The madness of Dolby Atmos for music fans

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In summary:

Installing a 7.1.2 (or better) Dolby Atmos loudspeaker array at home is a MAJOR undertaking
The Soundbars and upward-firing speaker modules that exploit wall and ceiling bounce to approximate Dolby Atmos’s height component effectively green light room reverberation, which in turn opens the door to bad sound for all music
Headphones dodge room reverb but with Dolby Atmos they boil the immersive content down to a binaural facsimile of 7.1.2 in-room playback
Apple’s Spatial Audio and Tidal’s 360 Reality Audio immersive audio streams are heavily compressed with lossy codecs
The library of Blu-ray discs and downloads containing lossless Dolby Atmos mixes content numbers hundreds, not millions

Written by John Darko